A semi long piece about the pedigree of arguably one of the most popular commanders on the Donbas rebels' side, Ataman Kozitsin.
How much of this is accurate, I have zero idea but there is little doubt the information is factual. And many of the current and former commanders in the various Donbas rebels militia units have a similar history, such as retired GRU Lt. Cololnel Igor Bezler (Call Sign: Beso), and reserve FSB Colonel Igor Girkin (Call Sign: Strelkov). These officers are all fixers in the mold of Marshal Georgi Zhukov.
As an aside, last I heard, GRU Lt. Col. Bezler had emerged from Poltava, after losing his command in northern Donetsk. I believe he is still in Poltava, essentially behind Ukrainian lines, stirring up trouble for the FSB, but that is just a personal opinion.
In a recent interview, the Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, Arsen Avakov, called the “New Maidan” a project of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB). I am more than confident that the Minister had the right to say so. He seems to know what he is doing. But there is another project of the FSB I am interested in, which has been around for almost 25 years, exists in the eyes of the world, and, unlike the Ukrainian Maidan, is quite bloodthirsty. The project is called “the Don Cossacks” (after the Don river in Russia).
The subject of my research is a man named Nicolai Kozitsin. He can be called an Angel of Death. Wherever he appears, blood runs and people die, cancerous tumors of “independent republics” pop up in the territories of the former Soviet republics.
The first conflict was in Transnistria. This was the debut of Mr. Kozitsin and his Cossacks. Or rather those that are called “cossacks” in Russia today. They are quite a strange group of people who operate throughout the entire territory of the former Soviet Union, have unlimited access to all kind of weapons in any quantity, and operate with impunity. In Transnistria, where the practice of independent wars only started to work out, they had to operate under the supervision of the active military troops (14th Army of the USSR, and later of the Russian Federation). The result of this first war was a new territorial entity known now as the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic (PMR).
Within a year after the end of the conflict, another tragedy happened in the territory of the former USSR — the Georgian-Abkhaz conflict. The situation here was most favorable for the FSB because, as a result of the armed coup, a former KGB Chairman and former member of the political Bureau of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union came to the power in Georgia. It was, perhaps, the only conflict, in which agents of the FSB directed both sides. Of special interest are the supporters of the Abkhaz independence. Among these “socialist philanthropists” are the following emblematic figures: the leader of Don Cossacks Kozitsin, head of the Chechen “volunteers” Shamil Basayev, Commander of the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry Sergei Shoigu, who supplied both the Cossacks and Chechens (and what he supplied them with is a separate subject).
If we have become accustomed with Kozitsin, the emergence of Basayev in the ranks of pro-Russian militia not only looks strange but even suspicious. A year earlier, the Chechens supposedly had entered into a confrontation with the Russian authorities and achieved the complete withdrawal of Russian troops from Chechen territory. So, under the guise of self-determination, an armed force was established in the north Caucasus that could influence events that were objectionable for Moscow.
Mr. Kozitsin had developed a warm friendship with a Chechen leader named Dzhokhar Dudayev, which he continues to brag about even now days. This friendship resulted in the signing of the Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation between the Great Don Host and the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria on August 24, 1994. As a result, participation of the Cossacks in the Chechen events was reduced to zero. These “heroes” nobly closed their eyes to the crimes committed in Chechnya against Russian-speaking citizens by unknown forces (it is possible that these forces have acted under the KGB/FSB).
The Cossacks didn’t go to fight in Chechnya, limiting their efforts by helping with the release of Russian prisoners of war. The first Cossack unit sent to Chechnya was established by the Defense Ministry of the Russian Federation only in 1996. And these were the Terek Cossacks, not Kozitsin’s! Perhaps, not without the help of Mr. Kozitsin, this unit suffered heavy losses and was disbanded. But after the first Chechen war ended and was seen as a defeat for Russia, Mr. Kozitsin and his troops stayed away from this tragedy. They had chosen to participate in another, this time international project, in Yugoslavia.
Here again, Mr. Kozitsin is a Royal friend, but now of Slobodan Milošević. Mr. Milošević, like Mr. Dudayev, as is well known, finished poorly. Which cannot be said about Mr. Kozitsin. He is now a “peacemaker”! But it’s time for him to return to Russia: the Chechen conflict is to be continued. It only needs an excuse to go from passive to an active phase. A wave of bombings of apartment buildings rolled throughout Russia. Followed by an attack in Dagestan, these explosions turned sentiment in Russian society toward a military resolution of the Chechen conflict.
So, the machine of the Second Chechen War was started. Dropping the subject of rumors of FSB’s tricks in Ryazan, I want to draw attention to developments related to the terrorist attack in the city of Volgodonsk. Vladimir Zhirinovsky best described the explosion in this city at the meeting of the State Duma.
If the explosions in Moscow can be explained by the desire to achieve a propaganda effect, the choice of Volgodonsk might seem somewhat strange, if you do not take into account one circumstance. This city is located in the Rostov region, that is, the region of the Great Don Host. In view of the fact that Volgodonsk was founded in the Soviet era, unlike Novocherkassk and Rostov-on-Don, has no relation to the Don Cossack history, Mr. Kozitsin’s part in the selection of the object for the attack can be considered a speculation that deserves serious attention. What if the attack was not only planned but also executed by Kozitsin’s Cossacks? Especially when you consider that the most important result of these explosions and the Second Chechen War was the coming to power of the current “Liberator of the Nations” Vladimir Putin.
Mr. Kozitsin’s merit was greatly appreciated by the Russian national security agencies. In 2002, he received the Russian State G.K.Zhukov Award! This award was established in 1995 by Federal law “On the perpetuation of the victory of the Soviet people in the Great Patriotic war of 1941-1945″. It is awarded by decree of the President of the Russian Federation in three categories: for achievements in military science, creating new models of weapons and military equipment, and for the best works of literature and art. In accordance with the Decree, the inter-ministerial commission for the Marshal G. K. Zhukov Award of the Russian Federation was established; it is composed of 35 persons and chaired by the Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.
What has Kozitsin received this award for? Not for literature after all, and not for the creation of new models of weapons. Which leaves us only the achievements in military science. I would love to see the presentation of his nomination; how many dark pages of Russian history could be revealed! Also, it would be nice to know, for what services Kozitsin was awarded not only the Order of the Red Star, but also a combat order of the Red Banner. But this is not all. In 2007, the head of the FSB Mr. Patrushev awarded Mr. Kozitsin a commendation and a commemorative knife! Where did this love between the organization responsible for the almost total extermination of the Don Cossacks, and a chief and friend of the victims of this organization come from?
Oh yes, Kozitsin is associated with the FSB!
After their man came to power, Ataman Kozitsin generally became very loyal. During Mr. Yeltsin’s rule the Cossacks were opposed to the construction of the Rostov nuclear power plant. And, during Yeltsin’s rule, they achieved the complete cessation of the construction of this dangerous project. But with the arrival of Mr. Putin, all the commotion ceased; and today we can talk not only about the exploitation of the first two reactors, but also about the launch of the third, and the construction of the fourth unit. And plans were provided for construction of the fifth and sixth units of Rostov nuclear power plant, located just 13 kilometers from the city of … Volgodonsk.
The possibility of a nuclear accident on the banks of the two biggest rivers in European Russia did not worry Ataman Kozitsin. He, like his leaders from Moscow, is far more concerned with the possibility that Ukraine will decide its own fate. And here Ataman Kozitsin with his Cossacks again goes to war, this time against “ukro-fascists”. But why does he fool himself? After all, among his friends, are…. international terrorists. His Cossacks took part in the Russian National Unity demonstrations! Now, in Ukraine, they are next to you. One can see such nonsense on the website of their Orthodox Army:
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Gülen seems to think that we may be the thugs, but that we are his thugs. He is behaving accordingly, directing campaign contributions to politicians in the districts where his schools operate.
I suspect that the political contributions go a bit farther distance than just school districts.
Re: Source. Blind pig, mushroom. Don't get your Irish up with me!
[DAILYKOS] We've all been taught the horror's [sic] of the African slave trade. It's in all the school books and in plenty of Hollywood movies.
But for some reason the largest group of slaves in the British Colonies in the 17th Century doesn't get mentioned at all: the Irish. Don't forget the English. You know? Duke of Monmouth? Judge Jeffereys? Read Captain Blood, dammit.
Most people have heard of the Great Famine, which reduced the population of Ireland by around 25%. That pales in comparison to the disaster that England inflicted upon Ireland between 1641 and 1652, when the population of Ireland fell from 1,466,000 to 616,000.
Then things got worse.
What to do with the Irish?
From the Tudor reconquest of Ireland until Irish Independence in 1921, the English puzzled over the problem of what to do with all those Irish people. They were the wrong religion. They spoke the wrong language. But the big problem was that there were just too many of them.
The English had been practicing a slow genocide against the Irish since Queen Elizabeth, but the Irish bred too fast and were tough to kill. On the other side of the Atlantic, there was a chronic labor shortage (because the local natives tended to die out too quickly in slavery conditions).
Putting two and two together, King James I started sending Irish slaves to the new world. The first recorded sale of Irish slaves was to a settlement in the Amazon in 1612, seven years before the first African slaves arrived in Jamestown.
The Proclamation of 1625 by James II made it official policy that all Irish political prisoners be transported to the West Indies and sold to English planters. Soon Irish slaves were the majority of slaves in the English colonies.
Kos might also remember that many Irish served in the British Army and Royal Navy, and did so as free subjects of the Crown. That alone would spoil the narrative...
White and Black Slaves in the Sugar Plantations of Barbados. None of the Irish victims ever made it back to their homeland to describe their ordeal. These are the lost slaves; the ones that time and biased history books conveniently forgot.
The first slaves imported into the American colonies were 100 White children. They arrived during Easter, 1619, four months before the arrival of a the first shipment of Black slaves.Mainstream histories refer to these laborers as indentured servants, not slaves, because many agreed to work for a set period of time in exchange for land and rights. Yet in reality, indenture was enslavement, since slavery applies to any person who is bought and sold, chained and abused, whether for a decade or a lifetime. Many white people died long before their indenture ended or found that no court would back them when their owners failed to deliver on promises.
In the 17th Century, from 1600 until 1699, there were many more Irish sold as slaves than Africans
Tens of thousands of convicts, beggars, homeless children and other undesirable English, Scottish, and Irish lower class were transported to America against their will to the Americas on slave ships.
You read that right: Slave ships.
References: John P. Prendergast, The Cromwellian Settlement of Ireland, Dublin, 1865
Thomas Addis Emmet, Ireland Under English Rule, NY & London,Putnam, 1903
Prendergast, The Conwellian Settlment of Ireland
Richard Ligon, A True and Exact History of Barbadoes, London, Cass, 1657, reprinted 1976
Sean O’Callaghan, To Hell or Barbados: The Ethnic Cleansing of Ireland, (Dingle, Ireland: Brandon, 2001)
James F. Cavanaugh, Clan Chief Herald
For Mather’s account of the case, see Cotton Mather, Memorable Providences, Relating ToWitchcrafts And Possessions (1689)
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But the numbers of the Irish were much smaller. They soon gravitated toward local gov't jobs, such as law enforcement and fire departments...... oh wait !
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Oh, and just remember "...to the shores of Tripoli". While the captain and passengers of a pirated ship were ransomed, the average seaman was just another sell in the African slave market.
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Irish slavery gave way to "indentured servitude." The Irish could come here and work for a given number of years and then earn their way out of servitude. My great grandfather did just that in the early 1800s. He worked for a time in America to earn his freedom. His wife and children stayed in Ireland to come later. Unfortunately, his two girls died in Ireland before they could get here. His wife did make it here. They were grateful to be here.
The African-Americans should quit whining and get on with life. Quit being victims.
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